base64 decode error

[Brad Crittenden]

The changes for bug 745801 introduced an error in some situations with key rings that aren't easily recognized as plain text. Since the expected 'consumer_key' marker is not present the key is assumed to be base64 encoded and the decoding then fails with 'padding error'.

[Brad Crittenden (bac)]

Released as 1.9.12 as a Launchpad download tarball and to PyPI.
Fix available at https://launchpad.net/~bac/+archive/ppa for oneiric and precise.

[Brad Crittenden (bac)]

python-launchpadlib now has a daily build at https://launchpad.net/~launchpad/+archive/ppa which includes the fix for this bug.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Can you look into pushing a SRU for this into Oneiric?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

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Martin

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hello Brad, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python-launchpadlib into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Please make sure this is fiixed in precise ASAP so that once verified this can move to -updates.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hello Brad, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python-launchpadlib into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Brad Crittenden (bac)]

Testing on oneiric the key is being stored as base64 and properly decoded.

[Brad Crittenden (bac)]

And it works as above on natty.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

precise has 1.9.12.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-launchpadlib - 1.9.7-0ubuntu2.1

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python-launchpadlib (1.9.7-0ubuntu2.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add 100_base64_encode_credentials.patch cherrypicked from upstream
    tree to fix issue causing launchpadlib scripts to fail due to problems
    associated with keyring corruption. We encode launchpadlib's entries so
    the keyring won't be confused by unexpected characters.
     - Convert credentials from unicode when retrieved from the keyring.
       (LP: #877374)
     - Use base 64 encoding for credentials stored in the keyring.
       (LP: #745801)
     - Properly handle decoding base 64.
       (LP: #900307)
 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:03:01 -0800

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-launchpadlib - 1.9.8-2ubuntu0.1

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python-launchpadlib (1.9.8-2ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add 100_base64_encode_credentials.patch cherrypicked from upstream
    tree to fix issue causing launchpadlib scripts to fail due to problems
    associated with keyring corruption. We encode launchpadlib's entries so
    the keyring won't be confused by unexpected characters.
     - Convert credentials from unicode when retrieved from the keyring.
       (LP: #877374)
     - Use base 64 encoding for credentials stored in the keyring.
       (LP: #745801)
     - Properly handle decoding base 64.
       (LP: #900307)
 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:55:16 -0800